This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtc: snvs: fix an incorrect check of return value
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:43:24 +0800 Subject: rtc: snvs: fix an incorrect check of return value
From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com
[ Upstream commit 758929005f06f954b7e1c87a1c9fdb44157b228f ]
Function devm_regmap_init_mmio() returns an ERR_PTR on error. However, in function snvs_rtc_probe() its return value is checked against NULL. This patch fixes it by checking the return value with IS_ERR().
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int snvs_rtc_probe(struct platfor of_property_read_u32(pdev->dev.of_node, "offset", &data->offset); }
- if (!data->regmap) { + if (IS_ERR(data->regmap)) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't find snvs syscon\n"); return -ENODEV; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are
queue-4.9/cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch queue-4.9/usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.patch queue-4.9/rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch